Originally Posted by
Lencoboy
You're not wrong.
On the other hand though, I do think there are certain people (dare I say it) who seem to revel in illness and crave all the attention and sympathy from others, both on social media and IRL, which I think can be an insult to genuinely ill people who hate every minute of it, even though the so-called attention seekers who love to make a song and dance over it are often genuinely ill themselves.
I think there's others who habitually revel in 'grief porn' too.
But going back to the explosion in many things being awarded trendy 'buzzword' names since the early 2000s, it's a phenomenon I've never quite got, and IMO is symbolic of revelling in 'drama porn' and/or 'disaster/crisis porn'!
BTW, I hope you're on the mend now.